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October 23, 2004

Shameless Pandering

Here's the very first paragraph you will find on the homepage of the official Kerry website today, which i found insulting:

John Kerry will strengthen and expand the middle class and help working women by strengthening the economy. In today’s economy, too many hard-working women are falling further and further behind. Instead of offering help, George Bush has turned his back, broken his promises and in some cases, taken no action at all.
This is one reason why Democrats make me queasy. It's never about Americans. It's always about classifications.

Wouldn't strengthening the economy help all Americans, not just "working women?" And wouldn't strengthening the economy help non-working women too? You know, the kind Kerry's wife insulted the other day?

This type of pandering, supposedly directed at me, is a complete turn off. Someone in the campaign reads a poll that says Kerry needs more points from the "working women" category, and so they take out their economy template and plug the words "working women" into it.

i'm sorry, but i don't buy it. i know that a Kerry administration would lose jobs by increasing the minimum wage and increasing taxes on the entrepreneurial class that creates jobs. And i plan to be looking for a job in about three years, just when the effects of a Kerry economic downturn will take effect.

So i don't appreciate the shameless pandering, as if women were all idiots who got all goose pimply, saying: "Oooh Kerry just mentioned our interest group! Isn't he the dreamiest?"

Posted by annika, Oct. 23, 2004 |
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Comments

So why is half the country buying this stuff?

Posted by: mark on Oct. 23, 2004

It's one of the things that scares me most about Kerry and the kind of thinking he represents...these are people with no concept of America as anything other than a collection of interest groups. It reminds me of the old cartoon showing two guys in a rowboat...as the stern goes down, the guy in the bow says, "Why should I worry? My end's not sinking."

It also reminds me of some of the really dysfunctional teams that have appeared on The Apprentice, in which every possible issue--how to price cleaning products, for example--becomes merely a hammer for one person to beat another over the head with. Such teams tend not to be real successful...

Posted by: David Foster on Oct. 23, 2004

Good. You're back.

Jason
Austin, Texas

Posted by: Jason H on Oct. 23, 2004

Kerry keeps talking about the shrinking middle class. He is correct it is actually shrinking.

But the reason the middle class is shrinking is that so many are moving into the upper middle class or the upper class.

The Democrats put women and blacks in the same category. That is, you cannot succeed in life without government help.
It is racism and sexism at its worst.

Posted by: jake on Oct. 23, 2004

(So i don't appreciate the shameless pandering, as if women were all idiots who got all goose pimply, saying: "Oooh Kerry just mentioned our interest group! Isn't he the dreamiest?")

Alas, for the majority of that demographic, it's true.

Posted by: Casca on Oct. 24, 2004

"This is one reason why Democrats make me queasy. It's never about Americans. It's always about classifications."

Verily, thats the only way they can get anyone behind thir flimsy policies. They make people think that they either are being shit-on by someone, or that they deserve something that someone else has. So, naturally, they appeal to all the gluts and neurotics.

Nice blog. Keep fightin'.

Posted by: Smacky on Oct. 28, 2004